QV band receiver converter for satellite communications

Author

Apollonio, D. ; Arena, S. ; Biondi, A. ; Cavanna, T. ; Ciccognani, W. ; Limiti, Ernesto ; Ranieri, P. ; Scappaviva, Francesco ; Suriani, A. ; Vitulli, F.

Author_Institution

Thales Alenia Space Rome, Rome, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

360

Lastpage

363

Abstract

A QV band receiver and converter unit, including a novel low noise MMIC amplifier at 50GHz, is being developed under a Contract with the European Space Agency. This project is aimed both at the development of the basic building blocks for equipments operating in QV band (LNA and Down converters), and at the fabrication of a full receiver prototype, conceived for future satellite communication in this frequency band. At the present status of the project, the LNA and mixer MMIC´s have been designed, fabricated and tested showing excellent results, suitable for the application. The LNA features a noise figure of 2.0dB at 50 GHz, while the Mixer performs an insertion loss of 9dB.

Keywords

MMIC amplifiers; millimetre wave frequency convertors; millimetre wave mixers; radio receivers; satellite communication; European Space Agency; LNA; QV band receiver converter unit; frequency 50 GHz; frequency band; future satellite communication; insertion loss; low noise mixer MMIC amplifier; receiver prototype; Loss measurement; MMICs; Microstrip; Mixers; Noise figure; Receivers; Waveguide transitions; Low Noise; Mixer; QV Band;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

European Radar Conference (EuRAD), 2014 11th

Conference_Location

Rome

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuRAD.2014.6991282

Filename

6991282